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« on: May 22, 2006, 08:28:45 AM »
OK, can someone better explain this one to me?
[sometimes my brain just doesn't want to comprihend things way outside the box]

"The pay-as-you-go computing model enabled by Microsoft's FlexGo technology allows customers to have a fully featured PC at home by paying only for the time as they use it through the purchase of prepaid activation cards or tokens."

"AMD intends to develop processors designed specifically to support Microsoft FlexGo technology."

"Along with the new pay-as-you-go model, Microsoft has also been working with major telecommunication companies around the globe on subscription computing offerings that provide convenient and predictable monthly payments for a full-featured PC with broadband access and genuine software. With the availability of Microsoft FlexGo technology, it will be possible to expand the potential of the subscription model by enabling telecommunications providers to better secure the PC asset from default and offer this option to a broader range of customers."

"Telecommunications partners around the world have worked with Microsoft for more than a year conducting successful commercial offerings under this business model."


. . .is this the same tactic used by the "lease-to-own" car dealers ~ for people who can't really afford them?

or some Rent-a-Center M$ scam?   *shrug*
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/flexgo/default.mspx
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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2006, 08:40:36 AM »
yeh like prepaid phone cards...
i don't like it...would never use it myself...

probably would be by the hour...like a quarter an hour or something...could end up very expensive quickly, as a user got more and more into the internet, would sound really cheap in the beginning tho...i can see people that are new to computers using this type of technology...and then upgrading to "unlimited" service once they're "hooked"
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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2006, 09:18:27 AM »
Reminds me of that bluehippo nonsense.
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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2006, 09:27:50 AM »
blue hippo???...what was that??...i never heard of that
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« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2006, 09:32:00 AM »
Quote from: tdawnaz on May 22, 2006, 09:27:50 AM
blue hippo???...what was that??...i never heard of that

he is talking about this http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=13386.0
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« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2006, 09:46:24 AM »
this thing from microsoft is just an accident waiting to happen - someone will figure out, if they havent already, how to bypass this system and use it for free ;)
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« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2006, 09:49:11 AM »
I would never use this garbage and cant imagine who would. MS is gonna implement so many idiotic features in hopes of deminishing pirating that they are going to go down. I cant wait.
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« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2006, 10:12:11 AM »
no one would ever use this, you would have to be stupid to use it.
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« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2006, 10:36:37 AM »
lol ~ come on you guys ~ this is the biggest scam to hit third world countries since the inception of the World Bank!
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« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2006, 12:16:19 PM »
Quote from: tdawnaz on May 22, 2006, 08:40:36 AM
yeh like prepaid phone cards...
i don't like it...would never use it myself...

probably would be by the hour...like a quarter an hour or something...could end up very expensive quickly, as a user got more and more into the internet, would sound really cheap in the beginning tho...i can see people that are new to computers using this type of technology...and then upgrading to "unlimited" service once they're "hooked"
Yeah, just another way to rip off poor folks. Offer a little for a little, and then you have them. $$$$$
Like renting furniture, cars, and such. I am suprised they do not rent food and gasoline yet.
But just wait, that will be next!
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« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2006, 06:14:34 PM »
I like the idea of renting food, If you cant pay you can give it back, LOL
done that a few times myself, :haha:
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« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2006, 09:59:26 PM »
If I remember right, I always rented the beer at a pub or tavern. I would drink it, and later give it back at the urinal.  laughing7

By the way, it was not that long ago that we paid by the minutes on internet. And everybody wanted full time, as that was all that was actually affordable anyway.   ;)
Well up to so many minutes on your account, anyway. And who did not go over their minutes?
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« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2006, 04:38:30 AM »
doesn't aol still offer minute packages??...seems like i just got something in the mail for 1500 minutes er something
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« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2006, 04:40:09 AM »
Ya aol gives those cds out for free.
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« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2006, 04:49:18 AM »
yep like i said they come in the mail...it's been a long time since i paid for my mail... :haha: Razz  i'm so glad when another one comes...i use them for coasters and the new ones are so shiney and new...then i can throw out an old scratched up one...
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